One single positively-identified bedbug, to be precise, found in my daughter's room. We've been here for 12 years and never found one before. 3 possible sources for our little visitor: 1. We had to...
Help! How do I keep my just-turned 2 year old in bed? As soon as she's in bed, she hops out and sits by the bedroom door looking at her books and nattering to herself and her teddies. We've tried...
I post to an unmoderated, no registration bulletin board. Several of us have discovered that someone else has posted messages using our email addresses. They are not obscene etc but are clearly...
Rainwater runs backwards along the underside of our new gutter, and then down the outside of the downpipe. I seem to remember a similar problem with a bamboo water feature on Ground Force but can't...
It looks like a washed out sepia photo of a chaffinch, cream underneath and pale beige on top, with white flashes on its wings. It also has two darker beige stripes over the top of its head. Same...
What's the length of a cat's memory? We moved about 4 weeks ago, taking the cats with us, while the house was underpinned. We'll be moving back in about 3 weeks. Will the cats remember the place, even...
This is going to sound really dumb, BUT - how do you thread the straps of kids' dungarees through those little metal thingies with the 2 sliding bars? I stupidly took them off to wash them - and now...
I need an identical picture on every page of a document, and don't want to have to manually insert the picture on each page. I'm thinking of the way that headers and footers appear on all subsequent...
More info on my mystery duck - he's got mainly white head and underside, mainly black wings, all markings are assymetrical. Dark eyes. More petite than a mallard, rounded head, yellow and grey rounded...
On the canal we have a gang of mallards, but a few interlopers hang out with them as well. Some are mallard shaped and size, but with dark wings and white patches on their chest. There is also one...
For the past 5 or 6 years we've had housemartins under the eaves. Where do they go when tehy're not living at our house? And when are they meant to go - ours were still in the nest up till the weekend...
Anyone know the piece of music over the closing credits of War Walks, Waterloo last night (Tues, BBC2)? It was also at the end of tonight's Mark Steele Lecture, 6.30 Radio 4.
